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Reddit mentions of Little Blue Truck board book
Sentiment score: 5
Reddit mentions: 5
We found 5 Reddit mentions of Little Blue Truck board book. Here are the top ones.
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Specs:
Height | 6.75 Inches |
Length | 7.5 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | July 2015 |
Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
Width | 0.778 Inches |
Always check out your local library for these recommendations first. These are mostly the books I liked enough to buy after reading.
Parenting books that I've liked best:
Adele Faber's "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk". This book has exercises to try and breaks things down by different ages so you can refer to it whether you're having trouble with toddlers or teenagers. I also have her companion book Siblings Without Rivalry.
Kim John Payne's Simplicity Parenting. This book emphasizes the importance of developing routines, helps emphasize that you DON'T need to get tons of toys or extra activities for your kids, and helps you organize your life even if your life is a little crazified by frequent job traveling or divorced parenting or stuff like that.
I... can't remember my other favorite book. Might've been a book for baby ages.
Now, for read-alouds. There are lots of nursery rhyme books, my personal favorite is Sylvia Long's Mother Goose, but my kids are really fond of Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells' Mother Goose. Either way, I recommend the ones that have only one nursery rhyme per page. The classic collections by Blanche Fisher Wright tend to have six or eight crammed on to each page and their illustrations don't hold my kids' attention as well. With one rhyme per page, as they get older they can remember what each page's rhyme is and can "read" it to themselves.
Alice Shertle's Little Blue Truck book is probably the #1 most favorite board book in the 1-2 year old range. Seriously. If you get only one read-aloud book, this is it. Other than that, hit up the board books at your library. I've found a ton that I like and a bunch that get recommended (like Sandra Boynton's books) that don't personally appeal to me. I love Leslie Patricelli's books, but I bet she drives other parents crazy to read.
Some that haven’t been mentioned here yet:
Monster Park
Any of the “How do Dinosaurs...” books.
Goodnight Goon
1-2-3 Peas and the other books in this series.
Little Blue Truck and other books in this series. I think we have 4? My kids love them!
I'm not a regular contributor, but I felt like making a top-10 list of my favorite books so far. (My son will be turning 3 soon.)
The rules mention links to facebook or blogs; I'm hoping non-referral links to Amazon are okay. I'll link board books where possible, because pages get ripped and torn until at least two-and-a-half years of age.
A harmonica for a two year old? She wouldn't know what to do with it. How about a couple of nice books instead? Little Blue Truck and Giraffes Can't Dance are both superb.
Or, like /u/genome_rants suggests, a nice xylophone.
Little Blue Truck has been a favorite in our house for years - enough so that it's my go-to baby shower and toddler birthday present. Excellent rhythm, animal noises, and a sweet message about friendship.
One Duck Stuck - Really great noises and again a nice message about helping.
(We do read books that aren't about being stuck in the mud...)
I Love You, Stinky Face - great title of course, and an awesome imaginative, loving conversation between mom and child. I often suggest reading this if we've had a hard day.
And a sweeping endorsement for Dahlov Ipcar - though her board books tend to be collections of "greatest hits" of illustrations from her many (somewhat lengthy) story books. Still good!